On March 2nd, I attended the Rose Café with guest speaker Adam Shwartz. Professor Shwartz’s talk was about the new Jacob’s graduate degree at Cornell Tech. The campus for the Cornell Tech school is located in New York City. The Cornell Tech school is focused on training students for jobs in the various fields of technology. For example, the school offers a wide range of courses dealing with health technology to media and communication technology. Despite still being a relatively new school, the Cornell Tech school is growing quite rapidly and according to Professor Shwartz, its growth is expected to continue over the next couple of years.
Although I am not directly interested in going to a tech school after graduating from undergrad, I still found the idea of the Jacob’s program to be very appealing. The amount of real world opportunities that a student could get going to school in New York City is infinite. In addition to that, you get to work in a field that is directly related to the field of technology that one finds the most interest in. In other words, the amount of specificity and variety in the Jacob’s program seems like a very great benefit. I can also see the need for these types of grad programs increasing in future as the world becomes more and more reliant on technology. After undergrad, I hope to go to dental school and become a dentist. However, even in the dental field, more and more procedures are integrating technology, making things more efficient and accurate.